Royal Mail eyes Sunday deliveries as internet boosts prospectsFinancial TimesRoyal Mail is preparing a move to seven-day-a-week deliveries after privatisation, driven by customer demand for convenient delivery times in the age of amazon and ebay. Extending delivery of letters and parcels to Sundays would achieve the opposite of …Royal Mail sell-off policy slammedexpressandstar.comMurray, I – Royal…
Guardians of Peru's Treasures Stake Out Post Office to Block SmugglingNew York TimesLast year, the post office team, which Ms. Collatupa joined in August, replacing another archaeologist, made 22 seizures, totaling dozens of items. They included pre-Columbian textiles and pottery, fossils, a 19th-century saber, a 19th-century oil … More: continued here
The Tebowing Patriots Shirt Hits eBay, And You Want OneSportsGridHe hasn't officially made the team, but Patriots fans can now celebrate Tim Tebow and Tebowing all with the same stylish shirt, available now for pre-order on eBay. But is this an NFL licensed product? Will Tebow sue? Will the shirts end up in El Salvador?and…
Food stamps: Congress glimpses into the meaning of $4.50 a dayLos Angeles TimesThe House cuts to food stamps would be significant. Some effects include slashing no less than 2 million low-income people from the food stamp program and placing in jeopardy 210,000 school meals for children in low-income families, according to the … More: continued here
FP Passport: For sale on eBay: A vote in Iran's presidential electionForeign Policy (blog)Just how disillusioned have ordinary Iranians become about Friday's presidential election? Enough for one Iranian to sell his vote on eBay. Iranian authorities have vowed to avoid a repeat of the protests that spilled into Tehran's streets and …and more » More: continued…
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For months now, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) has been championing the cause of combatting hunger in America on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. On Thursday, he gave his 14th End Hunger Now speech to announce that he and some of his colleagues were beginning a SNAP Challenge for the week. In other…
God is opposed to food stamps? Let's try an evidence-based approach to hunger …Washington Post (blog)Now we have a Republican who used biblical arguments against food stamps to counter Democrats who used biblical arguments for food stamps. During a meeting of the House Agricultural Committee, Tennessee Rep. Stephen Fincher quoted from Matthew … More: continued here
NJ Man Charged In Scheme That Defrauded eBay, PayPal Out Of $122KKYW NewsradioNEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has been charged in what federal prosecutors say was a scheme to defraud hundreds of sellers of foreign and antique banknotes on the online auction site eBay. Forty-nine-year-old David D'Aries of Summit is …and more » More:…